Wednesday, May 13, 2009

I haven't got much to show for myself at the moment. Some yardwork, some phone calls. There's just nothing to report. So I've thrown together another linkdump. I miss getting my comics on Wednesday, it was something that got me up and moving. This town needs a comic shop, but it needs a bookstore first. Anyway, here's some stuff I found interesting for you to peruse.

Moral of the story: Debt is Evil. If you look at the comments, you'll see that somebody found the case in a Florida law database, so at least some of the story is true.

I just ran across this book review of Lauren Slater's Opening Skinner's Box, a book about psychology and its most famous experiments. The title refers to BF Skinner's "box" that he put his daughter in. The popular version of the story is completely different from the truth: the "box" was a climate controlled playpen that maximized attention from parents and minimized harm from environmental factors. The review is a detailed look at the complaints made about the book by some of its subjects, and makes me wish I had a copy to read. Guess I'll have to check the library (and probably get it through inter-library loan).